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I love eggplant, I love how the flavor adapts to however you decide to cook it.
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A great side to add with meat. It taste so good you can eat the skin and seeds intact.
Ingredients
10 banana capsicums
Olive oil or ghee to cover the base of frypan plus a little more
1 Tbls Salt
Method
Slice the stem off the capsicum and heat oil in a frypan to low heat.
Slowly fry the capsicum on each side until golden and the capsicum becomes soft and the skin...

A lovely, simple and tasty salad, with beautiful italian flavours. If your lucky like I was today you could have the tomato, basil and onion picked fresh from the garden.
Ingredients
3 large fresh tomatoes sliced
1/4 Spanish onion sliced
Handful of basil leaves
Extra virgin olive oil
Salt
Method
Place tomato slices on the plate in an overlapping pattern.
Place basil...

If you haven’t seen it, we have posted a recipe for homemade peeled tomatoes with a video and all!
Of course don’t add the pancetta if you would like a vegetarian dish.
Zucchini and Eggplant Peperonata 2015-06-21 22:05:19
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Grow your own chilli plants and make your own chilli flakes to cook with and sprinkle on your meal.
Homemade Chilli Flakes 2015-06-21 20:56:20
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Save Recipe Print Ingredients The hottest chilli that you can buy or plant. You could also mix it together with a mild...

This one is especially for the bambino’s (children) out there that love potatoes and cheese. But it is a nice snack for everyone to share that is not on a strict paleo diet and if potatoes agree with them. I used coon cheese on this day but this recipe calls for Mozzarella. You could also add ham inside with the cheese.
Primal way of life accepts some dairy....

Being from an Italian background you would think I would like to cook anything Italian. Well no….I was absolutely scared of Artichokes.
But after getting advice on how to cook them and using a traditional artichoke recipe, I have confidence now and I hope you will too.
Artichokes are one of my favourite foods I love to eat, give me a bunch of these over flowers...